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Title: Little journeys in old New England
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Crawford, Mary Caroline, 1874-1932
Subjects: New England -- Description and travel
Publisher: Boston, L. C. Page & Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ho painted the first likeness ever taken ofWhittier. This latter miniature is nowin the possession of Mr. Pickard. Theportrait of Miss Bray, representing her 379 OLD KEW EKGLAl^TD KOOFTKEES in tlie full flush of her girlish beauty,wearing as a crown a wreath of roses, wasreturned to Mrs. Downey after the poetsdeath, by the niece of Whittier, into whosepossession it came. Mrs. Downey spent her last days in thefamily of Judge Bradley, at West ISTew-bury, Massachusetts. After her deathsome valuable china of hers was sold atauction, and several pieces were secured bya neighbour, Mrs. Ladd. The Ladd familyhas since taken charge of the Whittierbirthplace at East Haverhill, and by thischain of circumstances Evelina Brayschina now rests on the Whittier shelves,together with the genuine Whittier china,put in its old place by Mrs. Pickard. It was not because of destitution thatMrs. Downey made application to enterthe Old Ladies Home which Whittier en-dowed, but, because, cherishing until the380
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OLD i^Ew engla:n^d eoofteees day of her death her youthful fondness forthe poet, she longed to live during the sun-set time of her life near his grave. In allprobability her request would have beengranted, had not she, too, been suddenlycalled to the land where there is neithermarriage nor giving in marriage. THE EITD. 381 INDEX Adams, John, 96. Adams, Mrs. John, 111. Adams, Samuel, 119. Agassiz, Mrs., 290. Alford, Mrs. A. G., 297. Allston, 270. Antigua merchant, 6o Auburn, Mount, 328. Bana, Doctor, discovers Deborah Sampsons secret,181; sends letter to General Patterson, 188. Bancroft, 309. Barlow, Mrs., 301. Barr, George L., buys Royall House, 72. Bartley, Judge, 368. Bath, 13 ; death of Frankland at, 55. Beck, Doctor, 286. Belem, Frankland sails from, 53. Belknap, Jeremy, letter of, 265. Berkeley, Bishop, 11 ; student at Dublin University,12 ; fellow at Trinity College, 12 ; life as a tutor,12; reception in London, 28; marriage, 29; sailsfor Rhode Island, 30; arrives at Newport, 30

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